Category: Interesting Facts

Seeds can hear the sounds of rain and germinate 40% faster We’re used to thinking of seeds as passive objects that simply wait for water and warmth. But engineers at...

Doctors identified the most dangerous age for gaining excess weight Obesity in youth may be more dangerous than weight gain after 40 — this is the conclusion reached by scientists...

A new method of computed tomography allows for more detailed study of Egyptian mummies At Budapest’s Semmelweis University, several Egyptian mummies that had spent decades in museum collections were scanned...

The boundary of our galaxy has finally been found — scientists have solved the main mystery of the Milky Way An international team of astronomers has for the first time...

Mathematicians tried to calculate the probability of finding a message in a bottle, and they succeeded A message in a bottle is one of the most romantic images in culture....

Maps were wrong: scientists found an island that never officially existed. In the era of high-resolution satellites, it’s hard to believe that an entire island could hide in plain sight,...

A study showed that teacher salaries vary greatly around the world The income gap among school teachers worldwide has reached enormous proportions. An analysis of data from the Organisation for...

Launch of the Progress 95 spacecraft. Image source: space.com The Progress 95 cargo spacecraft launched on April 25 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and set course for the International...

There is a scientific explanation for why cats and dogs often shake their heads Cats sometimes shake their heads so abruptly, it’s as if they’ve been momentarily possessed. It’s one...

Fire and the destroyed 4th power unit of the Chernobyl NPP. Image source: vetkagolos.by On the night of April 26, 1986, the largest nuclear disaster in history occurred at the...